When Putin says that he “never does his friends in,” this is because he is afraid to get on the wrong side of the siloviki who are close to him. From the correspondence between the editors and Mikhail Khodorkovsky, inmate of Correctional Facility 7 of the Federal Penitentiary Service Directorate for the Republic of Karelia, the city of Segezha

Elections are to be held in Chukchi Peninsula (Chukotka) on 13 March. Roman Abramovich, the most celebrated speaker of Russia’s regional parliaments, is once again running for Duma deputy and by law must disclose to voters information...

The well known presenter talks about herself after the search and about the country after the protests.

Gleb Pavlovsky is a former political consultant of the Kremlin. He is 61, almost the same age as the President, a coincidence of which once he used to be very proud. His reception room is decorated with a large portrait in primitivism style of the...

Member of the Presidential Council of the Russian Federation for Civil Society and Human Rights Elena MASYUK talks with the members of Pussy Riot Nadezhda TOLOKONNIKOVA and Maria ALYOKHINA. NADEZHDA TOLOKONNIKOVA, born in 1989, a fifth year philosophy student at THE Moscow State University. Her daughter gera is 4 years old. MARIA ALYOKHINA, born in 1988, a fourth year student at the Institute of Journalism and Creative Writing in Moscow. She has a five-year-old son, Philip.

At one of Khodorkovsky’s last meetings with journalists, I asked what Khodorkovsky was hoping for and to whom he would turn as a last resort, since he was obviously in danger of being the next to go down. Honestly, I figured he would say Voloshin. But after a pause, Khodorkovsky quietly said, “Abramovich, probably”

Putin, who is associated with certainty may accelerate the processes of decay. For his part, Medvedev, with his diffuse position and penchant for mimicry, might slow them down. But what is better for Russia? Putin's regime, relying on security structures and their control of property, is inherently repressive and incapable of modernisation.

Another factor of decline is the obsession of the power apparatus, above all security men, with their personal enrichment. All civilisations perished when their elites started thinking about their own purses. Sparta and the Ottoman Empire were invincible until the Spartans and the Janissaries engaged in trade...

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Talk given to Novaya Gazeta by the most well-know Russian prisoner on economic policy, government property, tax, resource rent and social inequality: «Broadly speaking, public opinion in Russia is remarkably united in its perception of liberal and right wing views. In many respects this is a flawed observation amongst liberals because many with a very ‘left’ (social democratic) viewpoint have also backed the notion of autocratic rule, putting them much closer to ‘right-wing’ bias, especially in terms of the economy».

The scandal over “Moskovskij Komsomolets (MK)” and “political prostitutes” continues. The deputies of the factions “United Russia” and “Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR)” made an appeal to...

Granted, Putin has been working hard all these years. No, not like a "galley slave". But, for example, on the the mysterious Olympia yacht, allegedly presented by Roman Abramovich. So now Putin and his entourage are protecting not an abstract power, but a way of life that is unparalleled anywhere else in the world.

The President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev sits down with Novaya Gazeta Editor-in-Chief Dmitry Muratov

Who kept Anna Politkovskaya under surveillance at the initial stage of assassination planning and how

In the epilogue to Russian edition of his book “The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia” a famous American journalist David Hoffman writes that Putin preferred to tighten the screws slowly in relation to the oligarchs. The...

The rain came pouring down on the thousands in the crowd at the Solidarity movement’s protest rally at Chistoprudny Boulevard. “I hope that after this protest, the phrase ‘it’s raining like cats and United Russia’ will become part of the language. United Russia, no doubt, has gone to the dogs,” said critically acclaimed writer and journalist Dmitry Bykov.

I met this tall, think young man with black hair around 15 years ago. At that time he was, I think 25 years old and had graduated from Moscow State University and Harvard. It is difficult to have a real talent not catch your eye. Some time later, Vasily Aleksanyan became the head of legal department at YUKOS, the Russia’s second largest, and then largest, oil company...